After telling all my writer friends that I’ve bailed out of my self-publishing venture with Jennifer Scoullar and Kathryn Ledson, I am now back in. I’m no longer panicking. I feel calm and composed. I can do this. Doing it will not kill me. I will not die if, by some distant chance lurking just […] Read more…

BuzzWord’s Interview with Sydney Smith, author of Guns and Angels, a romantic comedy with gangsters. an excerpt BuzzWord: Why have you decided to publish Guns and Angels in weekly blog chapters? Sydney Smith: Lots of reasons really. I’ve always struggled with ambition and motivation to get published. I fear rejection and usually […] Read more…

My father’s nose was a magnificent schnoz, springing from his face with strength and vigour. It was the kind of nose that led armies into battle, the kind of nose that conquered ancient civilisations with brutish force, a nose to toss a tousled woman onto her back and whip up her skirts. It was part […] Read more…

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Sydney Smith is a writing mentor, teacher and author of short stories, essays, and The Lost Woman, a memoir of survival. Sydney's latest book The Architecture of Narrative about how to plot and structure fiction is out now.